Taking comfort in the Unfairness of the Universe
Almost a year after Nintend launched their new console they have finally released the first Super Mario adventure for the Wii: Super Mario Galaxy. Silke and I have been waiting of this game for a long time. Silke ordered it in advance months ago and we were very happy when it was finally shipped on [...]
The first decent UNIX systems I worked with were the good old Sun 3 and Sun 4 systems of the computer science department of the University Paderborn. At that time all the machines were running SunOS 4.0 which was derived from BSD 4.2. And of course it supported the proper syntax of the ps command [...]
Today I helped a friend to improve his self assessment for his yearly performance review at work. Within minutes I turned an overly humble review into a confident presentation of himself with just the right amount of buzzwords.
I guess I’m slowly being corrupted by the Dark Side after I was made team leader at work [...]